ATD organized a series of conversations between people from various countries who were living in poverty and struggling to survive without regular jobs.
However, speaking from first-hand experience, Marie from the Bukavu Group explained
ATD Fourth World seminar gathers families across Latin America to support one another.
To avoid spending too much, two sheets have to be copied by hand.
In Peru, ATD Activist Sarita Guevara spends her days helping neighbors, teaching four levels of school, and trying to survive.
We copy two sheets by hand so I don’t have to spend so much on printing.
This article was written after the difficult experience Sofia, Hemed and Micol went through together, as Sofia tried to help her sick sister Peresia.
But when I went to hand over my ID card, the staff in the social services department
The media we consume are highly influential in shaping reality. This can be particularly detrimental if we are offered an incomplete construction of real life.
The memoir and the series show how in-depth, first-hand storytelling about people
Virginia Pintó Muñoz, an ATD Volunteer Corps member from Spain talks about her involvement in ATD and what’s important in her work.
In my work, I saw first hand what people have to struggle with every day.
Gathering and analysing data, the children helped ATD and MATI Bangladesh identify hidden aspects of poverty.
speaking out in front of men, the team made sure to have female facilitators on hand
In Guatemala during lockdown, ATD Fourth World Activists make sure that people isolated by deep poverty are not forgotten.
“We’re not going to just hand out money,” he said.
On 14 June 2016, ATD Fourth World succeeded at adding social conditions to anti-discrimination law. From now on, the law (…) Read more →
Marie-France Zimmer, one of ATD’s members with first-hand experience of poverty,
Thursday, 24 January 2012 Diana Skelton, Deputy Director ATD Fourth World International, made a speech in the Colloquium “Extreme Poverty (…) Read more →
But in the vast majority of cases, this interest is solely in a person’s first-hand
